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Show 10 f H THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1922. 1 age of active worsted spindles was 66.7 on 1, 68.8 on July 1. 68 on August 1 and 74 8 on January 1. In the weaving eeo tion of the industry there has been relatively little change. Wide looms, manufacturing principally men's fabrics, have remained eteadily at about $ per cent of capacity, and narrow looms, manufacturing principally womens fabrics, remain at about 7 per cent capacity; carpet looms have been operating at about 80 per cent capacity. Business Survey Indicates Coal Shortage May Aff ect Industrial Activity of U. S'. rr June h JiC Tobacco Business Good. The tobacco industry is Improving and is expected to show more or less continuous time to come. July Improvement for some production for the- - first time In many months showed an Increase over the same month of the preceding year. This Increase extended over the entire line of tobacco products. The cfgaret Industry. in particular, has experienced a from the, d- remarkable larecovery The shortage of experienced mining Siwetal to Tb Tribune. I NEW YORK. Oct.' 29. The eighth bl-- ! hoc haa been tending towardand higher varse Domestic production, after running w&ito araleft. ship- year. Zinc production monthly eurvey of business and Industrial ments have been comparatively higrh behind for the first, few mowths, turned ! conditions In the United States made pub- June ami Auffuet shipment were higher upward In May, and by the end of July was slightly ahead of the corresponding than for any month since May, 1920. lic today by the National Industrial period of 1921.' the year of record producboard. New York, gives the tion. The trend of cigaret product-o-n Auta Production High. sftua-tlo- n ard. There Is every indirntinn encouraging summary of the Production of automobiles was again that the output will approiimate, and may in October: exeven in in fact exceed, last year's total of 51,890,-09- 0 August and unusually high The results of the strikes In the anthra- ceeded 000 clgarets the record. the production of any other cite and bituminous coal mines and on month this year The condition of the agricultural crops except June. the railroads are now beginning to make on in the heaviest the throughout country continues to be August production themselves felt. Rationing of coal sup- record. The United States 1,809 more cars far above the average. In Aufruat, 1922, already become a factor and were produced than in AuKUdt, 1921. The department of agriculture estimates that plies many of the large induatrles have been unummily favorable condition of the au- the aggregate value of this year's imporaffected. Some industries, which are laiqte tomobile tant agricultural crops will be at least Industry is ascribed to the de- -. 86 coal consumers, such as the Iron and steel 690,000.1100, calculated' on the basis of of the manufacturers in trades, have been forced to slow down. flatirw 1921 prices. Three crops, corn, cotton and prices. The effects of the shortage of fuel will each In Conditions seem to Indicate continued hay, will exceed 81.0u0.000.09d undoubtedly be cumulative, tending, to value. Estimates of the corn and cotton reduce Industrial activity, particularly If htrare production and consumptionof do-of yield both Bhowed declines during August. products. Consumption the winter proves to be severe and Jarge petroleum The rav&ges of the boll weevil have conAu-gcoal supplies have to be diverted to house- mestic and Imported petroleum in ag- siderably reduced the cotton crop. With was the largest of any month, hold uses. of wheat, rye and peanuts, the While the outlook is uncertain, It Is sig- gregating 5ft, 817.090 barrels, a daily av- this exception years crops are likely to exceed those nificant that the amount of coal mined has erage of J6I9.2&8 Itarreis. This compares of last year. Increased faster than was' at first antici- with ftftJUv09O barrels in July, a daily The first In the. bituminous average of 1, 632,74- - barrels. pated. Production of 1922 the consumption Failures fields Is prat ticelly back to normal. .Prices eight months ftoO A on evidence of the completion of barrels, according to are beginning to 'Weaken Tltghily. An- bvtfted 37N.S02 also regaining Its the United States geological survey, business liquidation, commercial failures thracite production the in the Unite! States hae shown a destride, hut only a few mines are operat- compared with 344,ft42,ft90 barrels for Auntiar-- , ing atfeapaerty." The average ir, however, l2l period. Ixmiesiio production in bar-re- s crease, particularly during the third ter of 1922. There has been a decrease now above 0 per cent. gust, 46,2 000 barrels, was 4,7t)6.0v0 less than consumption In the same not only in the number of failures but a lajtge tonnages have recently been Production in Au- very decided decrease in the amount of fchlitped to ports along the Great Ijtkes, month of hist year. and the actual volume of coal moving to gust averaged 1,493,387 barrels daily, or liabilities. While the countrys business thfso ports and the quantity dumped thert about Ift.OttO barrels daily less than ln mortality measured by failures still exIn recent weeks has been close ,to the Julv. ceeds that of last vear, the indebtedness maximum previously attained. The quanThe chemical manufacturing industry, of the insolvent firms during the third during the week ended Sep- particularly those parts of It that are quarter was actually less than that retity dumped tember 17 exceeded 1,000,000 tons; this interested In dyestuffs, and other syn- ported for the third quarter of 1921. Similar figures from another fl'iurce compares wltl) a total of 23.OfiO.Ouo tons, thetic organic chemicals, has been prowhich is the normal amount supplied to foundly stirred bv the administration's jflve the number of failure, for the first Ahe northwest by way of the Great Lakes. attack on the Chemical Foundation and nine months of each year since I9u5. toand liabiliby the proposal, inserted and then re- gether with the total Bituminous Production. moved from the tariff bill, to place an ties. and forDuring August September car loadBituminous coal production, which has embargo on the importation of such ings eteadily Increased, despite the strike rapidly recovered since the end of the eign made products. of the railway shopmen and the strike strike, is now fully up to that of a year In the coal industry. This Indicate a ago, but ft Is to be remembered that the Additional Dye Duty. steadily Increasing movement qf merchan1913 since 1921 tonnage was the lowest made also has dvestuff The coal. other dise than Industry For the second week of September, 1922, a determined effwt to have a limited emThe demand for cars reached such a the output was 9 737,000 tons, against on all foreign competitive prolucts point by the end of September th.it a 8. 18?.0K tone In 1921 and 10.6s,'.,0(io tons bargo a part of the tariff act In this serious shortage of freight cam had dew in 1920. For the calendar venr to date, made thev were unsuccessful, but the result veloped. The Situation is truth that many soft, coal production was 21.473.000 tons, Is that an additional duty has been Im- Industrie find it actually impossible to or 814 per cent less than in the same The manufacturers claim that move all their products The lumber mills posed. ear 1921 period of the subnormal insufficient. are finding difficulty in getting suffiThe building and construction industry, even this additional dutyJs this special consid- cient cars At least one important steel which reached unprecedented bqlghts in The Industry desires on a basis of plant has found it necessary to curtail it to order in eration put July and August, 1922. has now begun de-to hae aneotnpetltlon technically with the Euro- operations. Many of theon roads show the usual signs of a scusonal nonessential pean manufacturers, a result which can nounced embaigoes cline. Contracts for building construction, measured by the amount of floor bo obtained only by , years of experi- freight The chief In- ence. space, show an Increase Lumber production seems to have held Car Shortage Ominous." crease occurred In Industrial building There was a slight decline In residential lip remarkably well during August. ProThat such a car shortage should deduction was about the same as In July. velop at this season. and construction. The total value before the usual northFrom the Pacific coast, however, come fall movement of agricultural awarded In August In twentv-seve- n products eastern states was J322.009 000, ns com- tales of unprecedented production rec- has really gotten under way is regarded pared with 8170,081,000 In Julv. ThlR de- ords. Mills reporting to the West Coast as ominous by many, especially by induscline In August, In conjunction with the Lumbermen's association produced tries shipping carload quantities. Increase in square footage, Indicates a board measure feet of lumber to observe that It Is rather movement toward cheaper types of con- from January 1 to September 6, 1922. In spite of theastonishing ost!v strike of the railstruction, because building materials and In the same period last (ear these mill way shopmen, and in spite of the loss of building labor- - were more expensive In cut 1,733,651,237 board measure feet of large earnings from the coal trade, the August than in July. lumber. Water transportation and cargo net Income of the railways of the counBuilding figures for the first six months business Is reported to be an increasingly showed comparatively little effects inH In the present year, compared with those important factor In the business qf the try net earnings until August. of the three preceding years, furnish fur- Pacific and Atlantic coasts, as well as djmlntshed Railway operation does not seem to ther Impressive evidence of the recent re- for export. interfered with as s been have seriously vival In this industry. Fo'r tlje first six It has been the almost universal ex- result strike. On July 1, IS per cent months of 1922 the total waa 81,282,498,-00- perience In the lumber Industry that Just of carsofthe to he In bad conwere reported In 1921 It was 8700 237,000; In 1920, as soon as a demand for lumber becomes dition and 23 per cent of locomotives; on 1833,000,000, and In 1919 8 442,000,000. thousand feet the 13, and after per September prai tlcal collapse pressing prices rise, a large number of mills, previously of the Btrlke. 14 per cent of ears and Costs la 20 Rising, result Building The Idle, iMuime production per cent of locomotives were reported Car loadings, In the meanwhile, building Costs have that the marked Is quickly glutted with to he In bad condition. stocks of lumber, prices fll rapidly which is an excellent Indention of genbeen rising and apparently are likely to 'a well as of as business conditions a at eral ceases to operate continue to rise, Brices of building ma- and the Industry operations, show' a steady forterials have been steadily increasing profit. Tills Is apparently what Is hap- railwaymovement the last few ward during Wages In the building trades have? also pening at the present moment. In face weeks in spite of the ptrlking shopmen been going up continuously. Building of a brisk demand for lumber, the mills went Into law which new tariff The and at are production as some measured standspeed top of the running .costs, by ard indices of construction costs, have for the month of August exceeds any effect on September 23 Is of consider nole. to Immediate and importance more potential Increased as much as 30 .per cent be- previous month since the war, by commerce and ftiduatrv. Its effect upon than 47,300,000 laiard feet. tween Mav 1 and September will the of level the general price country Iron end steel industry has sufnot he evident for months Just bifore fered some decline In activity due to a Cotton Mills. Active. , enactment of the law large quantities the combination of causes arising out of the Increase In activity of cot- of merchandise were brought into the coal and railway strikes. Many furnaces tonConsiderable August and September country and withdrawn from warehouses have recently been blown out and pro- took mills during Mil) consumption of raw cot- Since that, time, according to credible replace duction of pig iron has been reduced from ton for re527,404 bales, an ports, Imports have been radically totaled, August the July figure, which is the peak since 69.00i bales over July. duced. of January, 1921. Production of steel In- Tills Is the nearly largest consumption reported gots hag also been ellghllv reduced The for anv month In the last two years. Fep-teunfilled tonnaee of the. United States . a slight? decrease, with showed er steel corporation continues to Increase, 497,344 bales The Rtrlkes In the New indicating sustained demand. to come have mils practically Fnglaml The movement of Iron ore In the Sault end and conditions are now almost fite. Marie canal between northern Mich- an normal. There has been a slow downA temporary Injunction was granted igan and Canada during August totaled ward tendency In the price of raw cot8.936.000 tons, or about the same as In by Judge Tillman D. Johnson yesterday ton. but a slight upward tendency In the July, but more than Rouble the August price of cotton of the United States district court to goods. movement of 1921. Prices of pig Iron and Condition In the silk Industry are de- the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railsteel all showed substantial Increases cidedly more hopeful. Fllk consumption, road company against local union No. ltsfi over the luly level. bv warehouse measured withdrawals, the International Association of MaThe copper Industry seems to be on a marked - increase in August. of chinists of Salt Lake and Olliers. Tills the upgrade. Copper shipments, foreign showed total m'tll takings of 34,772 bales In Is a case that has grown out of the railand domestic, by American copper pro- The that month Is the largest reported for way shopmen's strike, and its principal ducers exceeded 170,000, (mo pounds dur- anv month for which there are records feature , is the limiting. of pickets to two ing August. July shipments were 17;,- tp 34,212 for any Tine entrance to shops of the taking amounted 418.000 pounds and June 176,- - Septemlssr shipments bales. 774.000 pounds The average for the company within the jurisdiction of the continues woolen The industry past three months Is the largest for anv rather more active than the worstedto In-he court. U It further set forth that these peace jear in the history of the coundustry. In the industry as a whole there pickets must not attempt to coerce or try. Of the total production, about 7o The has been little change. percentage 000,000 pounds went for exnort and loo the workers in any way or of active woolen spindles was S,7 5 on June intimidate 000,000 pounds for domestic Interfere with them except to attempt 1,' S3 7 on Julv J, 93.7 on August t and consumption and fabricat'on to persuade them peaceahlv. The court cof,s at the j g 9 on September 1. The worsted Indus-annine .hnn, . -- i ra,tTa,!il Is being prepared and probably will tendenr as the re- -j try. however, showed renewed activity, order of advancing price for materials. csiiecially during August. The percent- - be Issued Monday. Several cases were acted upon by the court in regard to violation of laws re. and Intoxicating iatlng to narcotics liquor. Myrtle McCabe, narcotic law viowas sentenced to tlfteen months lator, In the federal reformatory at Leeds, Mo Nich Mitchell, for the same crime, was given three years In the federal prison. ETT3 John Vornkahl, for violation of the prohibition law, received sixty days in the Salt Lake countv jail. Mrs. J. A. Magerl was fined 8 .ton. Harry 'Rants ether and James 4ones were fined 82's) each for violation of the prohibition law. If Winter Is Unusually Severe, Large Supplies of ' Fuel Will Be Needed for Domestic Use. ... U efc'A I? Beginning ut Tomorrow at 9 a. m. Decreased I 1 Jr , t: I hs l! usr? One of the Greatest Money-Savin- g Events in the History of the BOSTON STORE t. F En Fn ' Regular $50.00 Values Offered Right in the Immediate Season of Their Use at Less Than 50 r0 Below" the ' Usual and Regular Prices of a leading Eastern maker and our willingness to eliminate all thought of profit makes this sensational sale possible. Seeing such Coats at $19.75 will mean buying. 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Fur-Trimm- 0; 25- -- - Sale Monday Only Per Cent Discount See Our Wonderful Coat Values Up to $350.00 On All Fur and Cloth Coats Not Previously Marked Down .See Our Wonderful Coat Values tip to $350.00 Ino-ea- se Temporary Injunction Against Strikers Granted --- lt I Pfir A tolls IK. o Obtaining Goods Under False Pretenses Charged p id ni EaSEQQSSESflR 3KS33S5K Corner Statq and Second South 7 One of the finest locations in the citv ; Ray Allen, 21 years of age, and Alfred Edwards, 38 years of age, were arrested Friday night In Ogden and charged wJth obtaining goods under fa'se pretenses. It Is alleged that Edwards telephoned to Mrs. Will (Smith, 246 Toplar court, and represented himself to lie one of her roomers lie said that he waa at Soldier Summit and that aworking m.in named Edwards would call at the Smith home and get his belongings. According- ly, Edwards called with an cxflressman and took a suitcase and a trunk away with him. 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